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Looking at the temperatures for the next week or so I found this and if someone can help explaining would be appreciated, Jan 11th is confusing. Huge difference between the operational and mean temperatures. Still - below freezing until a week on Tuesday !

Looks like Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire is getting a good hit with snow this morning and showers extending down the east coast to Dundee. Plenty of activity still out there, I guess any kind of precipitation coming across North sea into that cold air has potential to deliver snow.

Plenty of icicles about today too - hope folk can get some good pics of them..

Morning everyone - a crystal clear classic blue skies Winters day here. Wonder how cold it got in the depths of the early morning? Edinburgh Airport at -9.2 at 0900 hrs this morning... Brrrrrr...

They just keep on materialising... it's a constant..

Should change the sub-title of this thread to Ramping .............Reality..

Indeed it is - glad you enjoyed the word play it even had a sign up for those of us unsure why we were driving at 25 mph..

I was working tonight and had the mispleasure of having to drive the mate from Livingston to Edinburgh. The traffic cams don't do it justice - if the freeze kicks in overnight .. Altnaharra @ -11 just now and this extends south , then these roads are in trouble. The traffic reports I heard from across Edinburgh are just repeating the same - an early sign of the trouble this weather can cause with an eye on Tuesday / Wednesday. This is J2 Claylands heading west.. down to one lane and remember this is Scotlands busies Motorway the main arterial route between Edinburgh and Glasgow.

The wetterzentrale site has a great feature for animating charts over the winter months to compare this cold spell to previous... Have not got time to search til later but this is a a great tool to review synoptic patterns over historic winters.

Thank you for the reply - am trying to learn so much very quickly and the learners area doesn't always cover everything.

Just awesome channel of cold on the forecast charts - this freeze keeps on developing. The GFS run shows the cold from the continent entrenching itself over the UK until the end of next week ! Potential for lowest temp, potential for consistent 2 days of snow Lomond - what do you use for projecting precipitation, the fax charts? SST's?

Hail followed by decent snowfall here.. starting to feel colder already, think tonight will see some cracking low temps. with a little melting earlier today on the look out for some icicles !

Cheers LS knew we had the cold set up, not switched into this enough yet to get a good handle on streamers,troughs, shortwave and figure out the ppn.

Going to be much colder overnight tonight by the looks of this...

Been snowing for a couple of hours in Livingston this morning. Heavier earlier, just a light dusting right now.. Will try to get a photo of the top of my shed later - it has a perfect set of layers on it where the snow has fallen then frozen, then a new layer and so on.. It is currently onto the 6th layer ! The hits just keep on coming...

The model discussion thread has lightened up now that the prospect of whiteouts moves further south - happy for them . With my limited weather interpretation knowledge its easy to see that this Winter is a belter, reminds me of early 80's whiteouts as a kid in Aberdeenshire - I have one very vague memory of a storm which blacked out the sky, looked tornadic must have been a monster low before dropping mountains of snow.. 80 - 82 I think.. We have had nothing like that snowfall yet, but its the temperatures that are the exciting part. How many days now is it we have had solid white stuff either falling or still on the ground with temperatures around freezing ? I think last Monday was the only time I have witnessed any mild melting of icy branches on trees. The models for 72 hrs out make you reach for another layer of clothing just looking at them - its just so many features at once. Arctic air - Easterlies - whole atlantic blocking from Greenland High - that sat pic is ridiculous ! Polar Lows. What a time to be on here - its great fun..

am interested in seeing what it does to that bank of fog sitting over Norway

NOAA Sat Pic of snow cover across the country.. Apologies if posted earlier just got the email from them.

Thanks Alza & Snowman - cleared up some niggling questions for me, thanks in advance to all who reply.

Am a newbie on here and am quickly deciphering the model technical discussion threads with limited expertise. Would really like someone to explain in their experience the validity of the different charts and their accuracy, or do folks have favourite. If someone could also breakdown the acronyms that would solve another puzzle. If this poll misses another choice Mods pls edit it, ty. Thanks to BF for splitting my brain re Madden Julian Oscillation and JH for the links on the currently topical Polar Lows .

All over in 15 minutes started as hail then turned to snow , some blue skies towards Edinburgh in its wake..

Decent whiteout here

More snow in livingston - beginning to resemble Sweden here now..

Blizzard in livingston just now - wind blowing snow around in all directions, then pausing it ( bizarrely wind holding snow in a kind of vortex before dropping it) , then hammering it down again. Interspersed with hail. A good few cm's so far. Enough to cover the already tundra street and deal with the mild warming this afternoon. Back to cold spell business

Hogmanay at home in the comfort of my own home this year - absolutely zero point in going out in that weather. What does everyone think -10 and snow?? or just -10??